What is the advantage of microclonal propagation of plants compared to traditional seed propagation?
June 28, 2020 | Education
| What is the advantage of microclonal propagation of plants compared to traditional seed propagation? What crops are currently grown in this way. Give examples.
The main advantage of microclonal propagation of plants compared to seed propagation is that with its help it is possible to obtain a large number of genetically homogeneous individuals capable of rapid growth, with calibrated qualities and not infected with pathogens in a short time.
Using this technology is grown; chestnut, oak, birch, maple, aspen, hybrids of poplars with aspen, pine, spruce, sequoia.
